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quartets online

OTOMO Yoshihide + Norimichi HIRAKAWA + Yuki KIMURA + Ko ISHIKAWA + Yoshimitsu ICHIRAKU + Jim O'Rourke + kahimi karie + Sachiko M + Axel DÖRNER + Martin BRANDLMAYR

Times and Dates (JST)
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 — 
Venue
  • Internet (Special Website)

Admission
Free
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Photo: Yasuhiro Tani
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A continuously updated ensemble

This exhibition presents “quartets online,” a new online version of musician Yoshihide Otomo’s collaborative “quartets” installation project with numerous other artists.

“quartets online” is a new version of the “quartets” installation that musician Yoshihide Otomo unveiled at YCAM in 2008.

The original installation consisted of images showing only the silhouettes of eight performing musicians. Their performances were based on the instruction to ”play solo while imagining the presence of other players,” and ultimately projected as shadow images onto the sides of a big cube at the exhibition venue, according to a certain algorithm. Displays on the walls reflected how objects made of wood and iron vibrate in response to the oscillating sounds. As visitors could hear the audio of all performing musicians at once, but not look at the cube and the surrounding walls at the same time, it was not possible to grasp the total picture visually. Furthermore, as the solo performances were put together in constantly changing combinations based on a computer program, visitors witnessed at any given moment a “one-off improvised set.”

“quartets online” is a remodeled version that comes with the unique features of a work to be viewed on the Internet. This time, viewers can enjoy an unlimited number of improvised performances at any time on their own devices. Even though Otomo and the YCAM staff started discussing the idea soon after the initial exhibition of “quartets,” it took a long time to realize it. The viewer is inspired to think about the contemporary meaning of space and time within experience, and about the physical distance between human individuals, as the fleeting ensemble performances reverberate – differently from the original “quartets” – across the World Wide Web.

Works

  • Under construction

quartets online

  • kahimi karie,Jim O'Rourke,Ko ISHIKAWA,Axel DÖRNER,Martin BRANDLMAYR,Yuki KIMURA,Norimichi HIRAKAWA,Yoshimitsu ICHIRAKU,Sachiko M,OTOMO Yoshihide
  • World Premiere

Profiles

OTOMO Yoshihide

Musician

Norimichi HIRAKAWA

Yuki KIMURA

Artist

Ko ISHIKAWA

Musician / Sho player

Yoshimitsu ICHIRAKU

Musician / Drummer

Jim O'Rourke

Musician

kahimi karie

Musician,Performer

Sachiko M

Sinewave Artist / Improvised Performer / Composer

Axel DÖRNER

Trumpeter / Electronics Player / Composer

Martin BRANDLMAYR

Musician / Drummer

Admission

Free

Info

Special Website http://quartets.ycam.jp/
Times and Dates (JST)

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 — 

イベント休止日
  • Tuesday, January 12, 2021
  • Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Venue

Internet (Special Website)


Admission Free
Press Releases
  • August, 13, 2020 Release quartets online
Credit

Organized by Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
In association with Yamaguchi City Board of Education
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2020
Co-developed with YCAM InterLab
Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]

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